Please welcome our 2022 artists!

  • Leon Keer

    Leon Keer is a world leading artist in the anamorphic street art. He has executed commissions in Europe, The United States, Mexico, The United Arabic Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Russia, New Zealand, Australia and several Asian countries.

    A message seems to be present in his work. Current issues are reviewed, such as environmental concerns and the livability of this world. Leon Keer is constantly aware of the playfulness and beauty versus the degradation around him, a contrast that he expresses and amplifies in his work and which he uses as a metaphor for life.

    His paintings reflect his thoughts, confronting the viewer with the diseased spirit of our times, visible decay counter-pointing a timeless longing for unspoiled beauty.

    During his career Leon Keer often presented his art by live-action-painting performances. His ability of performing as a street painter, lets him share the joy of painting with the public. The anamorphic paintings are temporary but the images are shared via social media all over the world.

    He says: ‘Every street art piece is unique and belongs to the street and its residents, the temporary fact about this artform strengthens its existence’.

  • Woes

    Acrylic painter, multi-media artist, aerosol muralist, and puppeteer known for his distinct emo strife [disgruntled?] Panda bears. Woes have been featured in galleries and mural festivals across the globe here in the US, Europe, and Asia. Aaron's works can be found in publications and on designer toys and resin sculptures.

    Woes works revolve around his Panda characters and it's been well over 20 years creating them and leaving them all over the world.

    The vicious expression found in his works hides the true fact that Woes is actually the most chill bear on the planet. The vibes, energy, and style are everything when it comes to Woes.

  • George Rose

    George Rose is not afraid of challenges. If you say she can’t do it, all she’ll do is prove to you how much she can. She is driven by the fact that she’s always outdoing what she is capable of – and in the midst of the chaos, she’s left her peers in the dust. For this reason, she is a doer and currently stands tall as one of the most prolific muralists in Australia right now.

    George has spent the last several years traveling from one project to another, rarely in one city for longer than a few months completing art commissions for a diverse range of clients. She has recently worked with Brown Brothers, Instagram, and Samsung to name a few. If she’s not completing work for commercial projects, she’s on the global street art festival circuit including Bright Walls, Colour Tumby, First Coat, Perfect Match, Roskilde, Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans, Street Prints, Tropica, Wall to Wall, and Wonderwalls.

  • Pref

    Pref is a British artist well known for his unique typographic murals and gallery works, incorporating an exploration of common words and phrases. The bending and twisting of letters means that an element of deciphering is introduced, the viewer being asked to disentangle words and meanings from the images.

    “The wording for my pieces are usually auto- biographical. Like clues and relics from my past, or a commentary on current times. What it says and what it looks like, coming together to form a cryptic crossword type puzzle for the viewer to work out”.

    Pref grew up in North West London and has developed his role and reputation as an international graffiti and mural artist for over 20 years, initially studying Design Communication at Chelsea Collage of Art and working as an art director before going on to focus full time on his art practice. The clear linear elements of his work and Pref's evolving interest in typography trespass across the borders of fine and graphic art in energetic and intriguing ways, and his work is highly regarded for its ingenious examination of the way we use and perceive lettering.

    Recent collaborations include: Element Skateboards, Zippo, YMC London and Italian luxury fashion brand Fendi.

  • Adele Renault

    Adele Renault is an artist with a deft touch for that which most might find commonplace. From pigeons to people, she focuses her artistry on realistic depictions of ordinary city residents, on canvas as well as massive murals.

    Adele was raised on a farm in the Belgian Ardennes where her musical family encouraged her to travel and experience the world on her own. At just fourteen she ventured to Venezuela for a semester and then on to Brighton, England. During her travels she studied visual arts from classical oil painting to modern spray can graffiti, while experimenting with new media and graphic design. Renault graduated in 2010 from the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels.

    Following her instinct and desire to paint, Adele continues to live her vocation all over the world.

    Through her solo exhibitions, the United States marks a decisive step in her artistic career. The diversity of humanity, bird life and vegatation of American cities becomes the fertile ground for her pictorial aspirations.

    In October 2019, during the exhibition "Crossing Lines" at PDP Gallery, Adele presents a series of portraits of the community that surrounds her studio based in West Adams, Los Angeles.

    Adele’s work is immediately relatable. Her interest in people and pigeons, and now plants, stemmed from the commonality that no matter the place, each can be found in abundance.

    Through her series, “Gutter Paradise”, started in 2016, Adele has pushed her practice towards a meticulous study of a detail that has become the subject. She forcefully alters an element that might seem banal to make it the main focus of her research.

    In 2021 she launched her new series “Plantasia” exploring the world of plants.

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    Painting plants has not been an overnight decision. The seed has been planted a long time ago, quite literally. As a kid I always helped my mum in her large vegetable garden, sometimes fun, sometimes felt more like a chore. But I was subconsciously gathering up all that information being passed down to me. And even though I lived most of my adult life in large cities... something along those lines sums it well:

    "You can take the girl out of the garden but you cant take the garden out of the girl."

    -Adele Renault 2021

  • Schoph

    Schoph came to prominence through snowboarding, and has done collaborations with brands including Volcom, Lib Tech and Vans. His aesthetic is drawn from music (mostly stoner rock) and more traditional techniques.

    His style can be dark and brooding, but this is contrasted by his use of bright colors. There's a clear energy in his art that reflects the action sports culture that he's been a foundational part of. His work has been exhibited globally, and Schoph travels often, splitting time between the UK and California. He works closely with legendary snowboarder Jamie Lynn on many projects, including a collaborative art project called 1910. Given a choice, he prefers Guinness and Motorhead.

  • IMAGINE

    IMAGINE (aka Sneha Shrestha) is a Nepali artist who incorporates her native language and meshes the aesthetics of Sanskrit scriptures with graffiti influences. She has shown her meditative works in several exhibitions, commissioned works and public walls around the world from Kathmandu to Boston.

    Her show “Mindful Mandalas” was on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her newest work is a thirty-foot sculpture commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum currently on view. She was recognized by WBUR as one of the 25 millennial artists of color impacting Boston. Shrestha’s work is held in the private collections of Facebook, Google and Fidelity Investments.

    Sneha is also an educator and social entrepreneur. She established Nepal’s first Children’s Art Museum to provide a creative space where children and youth can develop 21st century skills through project based art experiences.

    Sneha received her Master’s from Harvard University. Besides creating larger than life murals and paintings, Sneha passionately supports Asian art by working as the Arts Program Manager at the South Asia Institute at Harvard.

  • Loraine Motti

    From illustration to muralism, Loraine's graphic world has evolved for a long time in a nomadic context, resulting from a mix of influences through long travels in South America. After her occasional beginnings on the walls of Paris, her practice developed in Chile where she lived from 2014. Through collaborations with painters and graffers, she develops new techniques, from screen printing to tattoo. As the years have passed, she has improved on muralism, leaving many productions in South American countries like Argentina, Colombia, Brazi, Uruguay.

    Today she is based in Lyon, France and her style is crystallised in a surrealistic and narrative world - sometimes full of characters in movement, sometimes just empty landscapes. The characters interact with their material environment, carrying in each painting a particular look on the human respect with objects and nature. Sometimes humorous, sometimes poetic, the different scenes are questioning the recurrent topics of social interaction, urbanity, nature and ecological matters.

  • Stevie Shao

    Stevie Shao is a Seattle born-and-raised illustrator and muralist whose work features bold colors, folk art inspired imagery and a love for the plant and animal life from the region. Shao incorporates a 'universe' of characters from folktales, drawing inspiration from historic illustration styles, her Chinese background, and her fascination with storytelling to represent these creatures, their relationships, and the meaning we instill in their portrayal. She is passionate about local causes related to environmental stewardship, racial justice and preserving historic community roots.

  • Pat Milbery

    Pat Milbery is a creator, artist, snowboarder and designer focused on positivity as a creative collaborator. Known as an inventor of joyful energy as well known for the large-scale murals he's created alongside some of the most prominent graffiti/street artists in the world as he is for the creative photo shoots and video parts he's participated in as a pro snowboarder.

    His vivid street art collaborations adorn the walls of dozens of boutiques, coffee shops, architecture agencies, hotels, breweries, bars, and other businesses across the country, and he's helped curate and create major art installation projects for brands including The Denver Public Schools, the Downtown Denver Partnership, Visit Denver, The City of Denver, the RiNo Arts District, Pandora, the City of Paso Robles, Lyft, DEW Tour, Southwest Airlines, Stanley Tools, LIFEWTR, Mountain Dew, Cheba Hut, The Ford Motor Company, X Games, Budweiser, Zumiez, Vail Resorts, Breckenridge Ski Resort, Loveland Ski Area, Blue Moon, Pepsi Center, Northern Colorado University Greeley, Declaration Brewery, Wahoo Fish Tacos, Academy 360 School, Denver University, Pabst Blue Ribbon and Yeti.

    He's also the owner/founder of the So-Gnar Creative Division, an umbrella collective responsible for a large majority of his mural projects, the community based So-Gnar Snowboard Camp Tour, the So-Gnar streetwear and apparel line he helps design, and lots of community based art projects. They also founded RKY MTN WALLS art/ mural festival in Granby, Colorado as well as are the co-founders of we. Create Art in Sand City, California.

    The So-Gnar Creative Division specializes in both large-scale public art as well as design of products, digital creativity, commercial work and have had the honor of working together with local communities to create works of art for all to enjoy. As Denver-based artists and creators, the chance to contribute color and vibrancy as well as add value to the community is what the So-Gnar Creative Division team lives for. The goal with each project is to create a work of art that people from all walks of life can enjoy and take pride in. Milbery, Andre Rodriguez and the rest of the So-Gnar team design and implement high-quality art designs with subject matter that is universally enjoyed and timeless.

    Milbery is also working on a solo body of work throughout the 2021 year that is focuses on western landscape merged with his modern, abstract, colorful geometric style. Some works are for private commissioned clients while a taste of these will be on display at this show. He also will have his multi mixed medium series titled “LOVED” available at this show as well. Wear your smile, make art accessible and let’s have some fun!!

  • Erik Burke

    I am a self-taught Muralist from the high desert of Reno, NV with a 20-year practice of place-making through murals. Over my career I have been fortunate enough to author over 150 murals across 12 countries. My inquisitive nature has taken me to the surreal and the commonplace. Throughout these opportunities I try to learn from our built environment; especially the people and history that make them unique. During these travels the changing geography becomes my muse reminding me to create responsibly but intuitively, hopefully tapping into an unspoken sense of place. I believe my painting is highly informed by these variations in sites and I use this pairing as an admission to transcend tourism, explore the concept of citizenship, and most importantly, engage the community. By beginning a dialogue with people and places I hope to pass authorship of my work on to the community and be a catalyst for civic pride.

  • Kyle Sanders

    Born into military transience during a raging Arctic blizzard, displacement came as naturally as packing the car. Comforted by flux, Kyle struggled to find continuity in the ever-shifting tides of coastal havens he sheepishly attempted to call home. This perpetual impermanence inspires work that is deeply concerned with the temporal nature of time and memory.

    As a painter, Kyle is attempting to imagine something beyond our common senses, to use color and mark to preserve a spectacle that lies just beyond the spectrum. But he seems to be caught in a ruminating cycle of the fictitious past. Challenged by this mistrust he creates realities caught within the collision of past and present. In the temporary space between crisp countryside air and urban vernaculars are images pacing, repeating, blurring, changing, vanishing like a damaged movie reel, reduced to myth or legend. This idea of preserving an inventive fantasy persistently guides his work.

  • Erika Rosendale

    Erika Rosendale was raised in the redwoods and sandy seas of South Santa Cruz County, developing an art practice at an early age inspired by comic books. This grew into a love for painting, which she took to study on the east coast, earning a BFA from Boston University's College of Fine Art.

    She has been a scenic artist for theater and festivals for over a decade, and continued to go big with murals in the last five years. She is part of the art collective Made Fresh Crew, winning multiple awards both individually and in collaboration. She was Lead Ground Operations and crew mural lead for the Seawalls - Artists for Oceand production with Pangeaseed, about ocean stewardship and conservation. She seeks to combine art and activism to inspire others in finding and fostering their creativity. Our world needs to shift, and it will take many hands working together to change it for the better.

  • Taylor Reinhold

    Taylor Reinhold was born and raised in Santa Cruz California. In 2009, Reinhold founded Made Fresh Crew, a collective of artisans ranging in talents from pottery, graphic design, videography, painting and mural making. Since then he has worked to promote creativity amongst the youth through artistic community outreach projects. He has organized and led large scale mural installations locally and abroad. His murals can be found in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. He has worked with multiple non-profit organizations including Youth Now, Mariposa Arts, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

    In 2011, he was granted a National Endowment of the Arts Award to co-curate the first ever Urban Arts Festival in Watsonville, California. The event aimed to educate youth about sustainability, public murals, and graffiti culture. Perpetually creating, Reinhold currently designs and produces original, handmade clothing and wearable art with fellow skilled artists in the Made Fresh Crew art collective.

    He has an unrelenting passion for creating art and beautifying public space. Reinhold has recently started the Fresh Walls Project, a local public arts organization partnering with schools and businesses. He spent the last two years fundraising to paint the largest mural project in Santa Cruz history, educating the community on plastic pollution in the Monterey Bay. He has been contracted to do large scale installations for Burning Man, Plantronics, Comcast, and LinkedIn with a couple more in the works.